Personal information | |
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Birth name | Elizabeth Anne Talbot |
Full name | Elizabeth Anne Yelling |
National team | Great Britain |
Born | Welwyn Garden City, U.K. | 5 December 1974
Spouse | Martin Yelling |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Marathon |
Elizabeth Anne Yelling (née Talbot;[1] born 5 December 1974, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire) is a British long-distance runner currently based in Poole, Dorset. She is the sister-in-law of fellow British runner Hayley Yelling through her marriage to steeplechaser Martin Yelling and is the former training partner of Paula Radcliffe.
Yelling has taken part in the marathon at two summer Olympic Games; she finished 25th at Athens 2004 and 26th at Beijing 2008.[2]
Yelling won the bronze medal in the 2006 Commonwealth Games marathon.[3] She also holds the women's course record for: the Bath Half Marathon with a time of 69 minutes 28 seconds set in 2007;[4] and the Reading Half Marathon in 69 minutes 35 seconds, set in 2008.[5]
After retiring, Yelling co-founded and ran a running coaching company, alongside her husband.[6]